2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

Housing Insecurity

During the past 12 months, was there a time when you were not able to pay your utility bills?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,055 309 7.6 6.6- 8.8 3,746 92.4 91.2-93.4
Medicaid Region 4 852 63 6.8 5.1- 9.0 789 93.2 91.0-94.9
GENDER
Male 401 30 7.4 4.9-11.1 371 92.6 88.9-95.1
Female 451 33 6.3 4.3- 9.2 418 93.7 90.8-95.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 508 14 2.4 1.4- 4.2 494 97.6 95.8-98.6
Non-Hispanic Black 181 28 14.9 9.7-22.0 153 85.1 78.0-90.3
Other 151 19 11.0 6.7-17.6 132 89.0 82.4-93.3
AGE
18-44 340 28 7.5 5.0-11.2 312 92.5 88.8-95.0
45-64 297 28 8.6 5.6-12.9 269 91.4 87.1-94.4
65+ 200 *** *** *** 194 97.2 92.1-99.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 221 32 11.8 7.9-17.4 189 88.2 82.6-92.1
Some Post-H.S. 169 17 6.9 4.2-11.2 152 93.1 88.8-95.8
College Graduate 457 14 3.0 1.6- 5.3 443 97.0 94.7-98.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 257 41 14.5 10.2-20.3 216 85.5 79.7-89.8
$50,000+ 428 *** *** *** 421 98.3 96.4-99.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 167 15 8.4 4.8-14.5 152 91.6 85.5-95.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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